Its strengths are that it is based on an irrefutable biology, the evidence for which is carefully presented it is written with the ease and confidence of a master communicator, in an accessible and well-reason sequence.

Fung has produced perhaps the most important popular book yet published on this topic of obesity. And conversely why the modern treatment of T2DM, which does not limit the carbohydrate intake, worsens the outcome. nderstanding this simple biology explains why this disease may be reversible in some. And the initial treatment for insulin resistance is to limit the carbohydrate intake. Fung’s novel contribution is his insight that treatment in T2DM focuses on the symptom of the disease – an elevated blood glucose concentration – rather than its root cause, insulin resistance. Instead, if he were to make a real difference to his patients (and his profession), he would need to understand the true causes of those conditions, for the treatment of which patients sought his (presumed) expertise.

So he resolved that he was not about to waste his medical life treating symptoms. His analogy is treating infection by focusing on the fever, whilst ignoring the infection causing the fever. Instead it wastes much of its time and many of its resources attempting to treat the symptoms of disease. He realized that to make a difference to his patients, he would have to start by acknowledging a bitter truth: That our venerated profession is no longer interested in addressing the cause(s) of disease. Fung that he was practising medicine exactly as he had been taught – treating reactively the symptoms of apparently complex diseases without first trying to understand or correct their root cause(s). Second, that renal dialysis is, however sophisticated and even life-prolonging, in truth just treating the final symptoms of an underlying disease that has been present for 20, 30, 40 or perhaps even 50 years. First that T2DM is the single commonest cause of kidney failure.

In treating patients with end stage kidney disease, Dr. He practises his speciality in Toronto where his key responsibility is to oversee the complex management of patients with end stage kidney disease requiring renal (kidney) dialysis. Jason Fung is a physician specializing in the care of patients with kidney diseases. Timothy Noakes, as published on the Noakes Foundation website:ĭr.

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